Sam Firth Movies

How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past.

After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.

Margot's overwhelming experience of miscarriage.

A young struggling, directionless salesman stumbles across a new-fangled religious movement while desperately trying to make a sale.

A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.

White smoke will explore the confused nature of teenage love and the struggle to understand the difference between real attachment and obsession, getting the audience hooked into the protagonist´s destructive and unpredictable relationship.

After falling in love with Mhairi online, Jon travels from the USA to Scotland to meet her. When he gets there however, things don't go quite as he imagined.

A teenage girl from a small Highland community has a crush on a local lobster fisherman and persuades him to take her out for the day.

A superstitious widow looks at the stars every night in the hope of understanding her late husband's last words to her. Meanwhile a homeless man discovers some interesting items discarded in a bin.

A short by Marko Fuchs.

Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary.

A teenager finds her identity through the intimacy of the photo booth.

When three siblings are reunited at their mother's vigil, Judy confronts her brothers' expectations.

A mysterious paranoid man's evening turns into a nightmare when he is targeted by a pair of pedophile-hunting vigilantes.

At his father’s funeral, a young man wrestles with his impulses with the arrival of a last minute replacement organist.

An intimate account of a filmmaker grappling with the mysteries of the human body, the failings of a homogenised medical system and the seductive nature of alternative medicine. A challenge to the currently prevailing idea that illness may be within our control if we try hard enough.

In Sam Firth's essay film "Field Notes On Love" a romantic relationship between a filmmaker and an ecologist interweaves explorations of categorisation, individuality, and a collective 'us'. Human and nonhuman entanglements are enticingly allegorised amidst a lush Scottish woodland.

Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same place and same time, this experimental film-poem documents the desire to clutch and hold each moment.